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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

I thought it would be fun to post my latest cookie experiment. I've played around with some yummy ingredients and I think what I've come up with is the perfect tropical vacation in a cookie. These Coconut Sugar Cookies have me day dreaming of tropical beaches and summer breezes. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Coconut Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

1 C. Butter (room temperature)

3/4 C. Coconut Oil

1 1/4 C. Sugar

3/4 C. Powdered Sugar

2 T. Coconut Water

2 Eggs

1 t. Coconut Extract

1/2 t. Baking Soda

1/2 t. Cream of Tarter

1 t. Salt

5 1/2 C. Flour

Cream
together Butter, Oil, Sugars, Water, Eggs, and Coconut Extract.

Combine
dry ingredients and slowly add to butter mixture.

Mix
until everything is combined. Your dough should be a little crumbly.

Roll
a heaping tablespoon sized ball of dough and place it on your cookie sheet

To
give these cookies their signature rough edge. Put 1/4 c of sugar and a
pinch of salt in a dish (this is in addition to the sugar and salt listed
above.) Stick the bottom of a glass into the sugar salt mixture and firmly
press it into the center of your dough ball.

Bake
at 350 for 9-10 minutes. They should just barely be browning on the
bottom. Move cookies to a cooling rack.

Store the frosting in a sealed
container in the refrigerator until chilled. Frost cookies right
before serving adding some grated coconut on top. The room temperature
cookie paired with the chilled frosting and shredded coconut is heavenly!

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

I'm so excited to share with you one of my latest painting projects. I purchased this table from Goodwill a year and a half ago.

I was originally planing on turning the table into an ottoman. I fell in love with this piece the moment I saw it. The carved details and sturdy construction is amazing. The original dark wood, not my favorite but that's what paint is for, right?!

After patiently waiting in the living room for a year, my coffee table finally has its well deserved makeover!

The inspiration?

My growing collection of metallic spray paint!

I've fallen head over heals for the stuff and one day after painting most of my mason jars and some random vases, I was literally walking around my house looking for more things to paint, ha ha!

It's like the table was calling out to be made shinny and pretty. Besides, who can resist chrome and white!?

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

It is not often enough that I get to see the after pictures of the supplies I sell, but when I do I am always blown away! Today I was so excited to see the original manila tags that I sold to a lovely couple in France, were turned into these lovely place cards for their wedding!

I think it looks amazing. I love the sand & sea wedding colors as well as the hand written script on each tag.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Today I'm having some fun with these manila tags. It's nice to stop working every once in a while and just play :) If you know me well, you know that I have tons of miscellaneous craft supplies. Many of my supplies are things that I've salvaged and saved for random projects like this.

Scrap-hoarder? I hope it doesn't come to that, ha ha!

For my tags I used a scrap of fabric, feather, tape, stickers, more stickers,
(can you ever have to many stickers?!)
and a sharpie (metallic silver & black) to customize these tags!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

I've wanted to put together a blog and Facebook page FOR-EVE-ER...but to be honest they both felt like such ginormous steps & so I've put it off... until now! California Craft now has her very own fan page, can you genderise a shop?! Why yes you can :) So with out further ado the new Facebook Fan page is here:

Also...Welcome to California Craft's new blog!!!

I'm so excited to share with you some of the things I love and love to make!